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...nergy storage system in Beecher, Illinois, to a 2-megawatt battery system planned to go live in June in Zion, Illinois. The company estimates the Zion project will defer expensive upgrades at a substation and feeder for ...

...rom the system at any time. The microgrid will ultimately connect with an existing microgrid on the campus of Illinois Tech, resulting in one of the most advanced urban microgrid clusters in the nation. Donnelly said: “T...

... northern Illinois is more hospitable to shared microgrids than other places. ComEd, the local power utility (Illinois’ largest), is moving away from power generation and focusing on distribution, and Illinois has legisl...

...necticut and Oregon, where governors won in November calling for 100 percent clean energy. Governors-elect in Illinois, Maine, Nevada and New Mexico called for very high levels of clean energy in the coming years. Utilit...

...hose alternatives to high-powered lines and substations.
Such projects are popping up across the country. In Illinois, the state’s largest electric utility, ComEd, successfully piloted a battery project that it installe...

...erator Laboratory. NETenergy, a clean tech startup company based on technology developed at the University of Illinois at Chicago and licensed from UIC, will commercialize its unique hybrid, super-efficient air-condition...

...7, 2018, Acting Commissioner Anastasia Palivos hosted a policy session on the future of energy storage at the Illinois Commerce Commission in Chicago. This article aims to examine the benefits of and barriers to widespre...

...us panelists who provided analyses of the energy storage landscape and associated challenges in Illinois. The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) recently held a policy session exploring the future of energy storage and i...

...ng for their regulators to investigate energy storage targets. And several other states — including Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio and Vermont — have begun proceedings on energy storag...

...from the local grid and continue to serve local communities with power in the event of network issues. ComEd, Illinois’ biggest utility with around four million customers, said the project will serve around 1,000 utility...

... batteries will be aggregated to provide direct customer benefits and other, utility-controlled functions. In Illinois, the investor-owned utility Commonwealth Edison has also launched a pilot about 40 miles outside Chic...

...icy space to get policy right up front.” A key “best practice” may have been that the enabling legislation in Illinois “did not just fund grid modernization but established return-on-equity metrics and required that prog...

...mall storage facility in ERCOT but also a 31.5-MW facility in West Virginia and a 36-MW, 13.8-MWh facility in Illinois, is ranked third.
Ranked fourth is Southern California Edison, which owns four battery storage un...

Illinois customers have the same desire for cost savings and resilience that any other state has, and storage will be an important part of integrating higher levels of renewables in state and enhancing Illinois' distribution system infrastructure.